5 Best Books I read in 2022

Oh, how I totally missed this catch-up post. Better than late never, isn’t it? So, here we are. I am excited to share some of the best books I read in 2022 with a hope you pick them up too. After all, life is too short to miss out on the good books and time’s…

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The Half Mother – Shahnaz Bashir: Book Review by Asha Seth

Author: Shahnaz Bashir | Genre: Indian Literature | Pages: 182 | Publisher: Hachette India The night is tired now, the old moon, hanging in the dark sky, is tired too. It is the 1990s and Kashmir’s long war has begun to claim its first victims. Among them are Ghulam Rasool Joo, Haleema’s father and her teenage son Imran, who…

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Our Moon Has Blood Clots – Rahul Pandita: Book Review by Asha Seth

Author: Rahul Pandita | Genre: Memoir, Indian Literature | Pages: 264 | Publisher: Random House India Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family, who were Kashmiri Pandits: the Hindu minority within a Muslim majority Kashmir that was becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of…

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